Across The Pampas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCDC EFGF GHGA EICI CJCK ELEL CMCN COGO CGPQ RCCC ESES AKCT UVWV CXEX CXXX EXEX EXEX EYXY AZXA2 XXCX AXAX| Dost thou remember oh dost thou remember | A |
| Here as we sit at home and take our rest | B |
| How we went out one morning on a venture | A |
| In the West | B |
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| Hast thou forgotten in these English hedgerows | C |
| How the great Pampas rolled out like the sea | C |
| Never a daisy in that mighty meadow | D |
| Never a tree | C |
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| Full were our hearts upon that sunny morning | E |
| Stout handed and stout hearted went we forth | F |
| The warm wind in our faces breathed us fortune | G |
| From the North | F |
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| And high in heaven the sun stood for a token | G |
| We had no other sign by which to steer | H |
| No landmark is there in the Earth's great ocean | G |
| For mariner | A |
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| Dost thou remember how when night was falling | E |
| There in the middle plain as best we might | I |
| We set our little tent up as a fortress | C |
| For the night | I |
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| Dost thou remember how through the night watches | C |
| We listened to the voices of the plain | J |
| The owls and plovers and the bold bischachas | C |
| Talking like men | K |
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| Drowsy we sat and watched our horses feeding | E |
| Dim through the night while over the tent's mouth | L |
| The Cross was turning like a clock and reeling | E |
| In the South | L |
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| But as the night grew out and we grew chilly | C |
| Under our blankets safe we crept and warm | M |
| Full of good heart and each with loaded pistols | C |
| Close to his arm | N |
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| And so dreamed pleasant dreams of far off faces | C |
| And trees and fields which we had loved in youth | O |
| All in a maze of present apprehension | G |
| Mingled uncouth | O |
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| And how we travelled on and ever onwards | C |
| Still in the red path of the setting sun | G |
| Until into the heart of a great woodland | P |
| We had come | Q |
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| And there saw round about our strange encampment | R |
| Flocks of bright birds which flew and screamed at us | C |
| Red cardinals and woodpeckers and parrots | C |
| Multitudinous | C |
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| And on the lake black headed swans were sailing | E |
| And in the morning to the water's brink | S |
| Flamingoes like the rising sun came wading | E |
| Down to drink | S |
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| Dost thou remember oh dost thou remember | A |
| How in that fatal wood the mancar n | K |
| Found out a poisonous herb before his fellows | C |
| And fed thereon | T |
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| And how we left him and how Caesar sickened | U |
| And how the sky grew dark and overcast | V |
| And how two tragic days we rode on silent | W |
| In the blast | V |
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| And how the wind grew icy and more icy | C |
| Until we could not feel our hands or feet | X |
| As sick at heart we sought in vain a hiding | E |
| From the sleet | X |
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| Lighting at last on a deserted post house | C |
| Where we found shelter from the wind but nought | X |
| Of entertainment for our souls or comfort | X |
| Of any sort | X |
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| And how in that wild pass brave Caesar dying | E |
| Stretched out his arm towards the promised land | X |
| And saw as in a dream the white hills lying | E |
| Close at hand | X |
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| For ere the sun set suddenly that evening | E |
| The great plain opened out beneath our feet | X |
| And in a valley far below lay gleaming | E |
| With square and street | X |
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| And spire and dome and pinnacle uprising | E |
| White on the bosom of a mountain slope | Y |
| To our amazement bodily the city | X |
| Of our hope | Y |
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| Dost thou remember oh dost thou remember | A |
| How the bells rang as sick and travel worn | Z |
| A weary crew we made our solemn entry | X |
| To the town | A2 |
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| Strangely as phantoms out of the great desert | X |
| We came into the city and at last | X |
| Heard sound of Christian singing in the churches | C |
| As we passed | X |
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| And laid at length our weary limbs in rapture | A |
| Between the clean sheets of a Christian bed | X |
| Oh there are things I think we shall remember | A |
| When we are dead | X |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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